Chai is not just a drink, but a whole culture, around which life revolves in both China and India. These are the world’s two largest tea-producing countries, although their teas are of different varieties.

The exhibition invited 50 artists from different countries including China, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and South Korea. Their works discuss the role art plays in the chain reaction of emerging economies and how art deals with social transformations and their influence on society and individuals.

Pingshan (literally, “Screen Hill”) at the foot of Qingyang Mountain, four kilometers east of the seat of Yixian County in Anhui Province, is so named for the mountain resembling a screen that shelters the village from the north. Its history is well documented for more than 1,100 years.